Printmaking -- Bits and Pieces

A lot of printmaking activity is swelling up as the weather gets warmer.  I made this post of the bits-and-pieces to unscramble my brain, and focus on the printmaking future:

CHRIS BARDEY

Tessellation

 

Chris Bardey of Las Cruces made this EXQUISITE TESSELLATION masterpiece from one tessellation tile:

Chris Bardey in Las Cruces

made this print from one tessellation tile

HENRY MORALES

Henry Morales cannot be stopped. He is busy carving new prints for his exhibition at the Juan Tabo Public Library in Albuquerque (opening May 31st, 2025):

I met Henry and Luis Neri Zagal at Little Bear Coffee on May 15th.  Luis Neri is a Mexican artist who interacted with Diego Rivera and Francisco Toledo:

Henry Morales shows Luis Neri

his print in the Desert Triangle catalog

Proofs of Henry Morales' new prints

The carved linocut

Another linocut

Henry Morales print-in-progress

We hope to print this Henry Morales

in Taos

VIRGIL VELASCO

Virgil Velasco showed me the prints he was working on when I visited him on May 18th, 2025:

Virgil is working on a milk carton drypoint

HERSTORY

Julianna Kirwin and the HERSTORY Printmaking Collective, wheat pasted prints at Nahalat Shalom in Albuquerque:

HERSTORY Printmaking Collective

• Julianna Kirwin is currently printmaking in Oaxaca at La Buena Impresión Taller de Litografía:

Julianna Kirwin printed in Oaxaca

at La Buena Impression

UNM

I went by the University of New Mexico printmaking department on May 15, 2025, and revisited this wonderful collaborative student print in the hallway (directed by Yoshiko Shimano I believe):

• UNM will be hosting the SGCI printmaking conference in 2027

ANCIENT SILKSCREENING

When I visited Deborah in Hueco Tanks (outside of El Paso) in the beginning of May, she pulled out the silk screen and t-shirts that we made together about 25 years ago:

COLORFUL FUTURE

I bought a lot of Cranfield Caligo Safe Fast Relief printmaking inks at Takach Press on May 16th, 2025, to use in our upcoming print demos:

• Extender
• Safe Wash Oil
• Rubine Red
• Light Orange
• Yellow Ochre

PRINTERS PLANET TAOS

Elle Weadock and I are going to demo prints at the PRINTERS PLANET in Taos, on May 24th and 25th, 2025, at the Stables Gallery in front of the Taos Center for the Arts:

PRINTERS PLANET TAOS

May 24th and 25th, 2025

We exhibited the AMBOS LADOS INTERNATIONAL PRINT EXCHANGE at the Taos Center for the Arts back in 2020:

The AMBOS LADOS exhibition in 2020

at the Taos Center for the Arts

Elle Weadock and I

will be demoing prints in Taos

SOUTHWEST PRINT FIESTA

The Southwest Print Fiesta 2025 is coming up in October, and they just opened their registration for their print exchange:

Registration is now open

for the 2025 Southwest Print Fiesta Print Exchange

La Frontera Print Fest

On December 7, 2024, Skuishi and company made a 30 foot print with a steamroller in El Paso during the La Frontera Print Fest 2024:

The 30 foot print in El Paso

• Running the steamroller in El Paso over the 30 foot print

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Martin Quintanilla was part of a big steamroller print in Morelia, Mexico, 2021 on fabric -- where they printed on big Styrofoam plates.  They painted on the Styrofoam, and then poured solvent (paint thinner?) over it -- the solvent only dissolved the Styrofoam that was not covered by paint:

Upcoming Exhibition at the University of Arizona Art Museum --

 and Artist Updates

In 2021, Martin Quintanilla and company

made a huge steamroller print in Morelia, Mexico

from Styrofoam plates

• The video of steamroller printing in Morelia, Mexico

SOME PRINT DUDE

Nick Phan (Some Print Dude) is 3D printing small printing presses -- and he has a YouTube channel:

 

Small 3D printed press

Small 3D printed Litho Press

• Litho press in a suitcase  (Instagram at MACP)

COLLAGRAPH WAX

Wagner Collagraph Wax

• Wagner Collagraph Wax  (Print.Wax on Instagram)

UPCOMING EVENTS

2025

MAY 24-25:

Printers Planet TAOS -- Noon to 6 PM Saturday, 11 AM to 5 PM on Sunday

MAY 31:

Henry Morales opening at the Juan Tabo Library in Albuquerque

JUNE 7:

Take down of our EXQUISITE TESSELLATION exhibition at Remarque

JUNE 13:

ATOMIC 66 at Quelab

JUNE 14:

Santa Fe Art Institute -- MADA, 1 - 4 PM, public invited (newspaper article)

JULY 12:

Ray Leith's opening at FOMA Gallery in Santa Fe, 4-6 PM

AUGUST 7:

Monsoon A.R.T. exhibition at the Mothership Alumni

AUGUST 10:

Printers Planet SANTA FE

AUGUST 22:

Opening for the TÚNEL GRÁFICO exhibition at the CENTRO CULTURAL DE LA FRONTERAS at the University of Ciudad Juarez in Mexico

OCTOBER 9-12:

IMPACT13, printmaking conference in Montreal

OCTOBER 10-13:

Southwest Print Fiesta 2025

2026 -- BIG INK

2029 -- SGCI in Albuquerque 

OTHER 

• We attempted to CNC some tessellation tiles from Expanded PVC Foam at Quelab on May 14, 2025

• On May 15th I called TALLER GRAFICA LIBRE in Zaachila, Oaxaca about making EXQUISITE TESSELLATION prints.  They may be able to buy the linoleum and laser cut it in Oaxaca

• Also note that Remarque Print Workshop will be moving to a different location in Albuquerque in June 2025